Flamingo Roost

Aloha Poets,
Flamingo roost inspires today's poem. Enjoy!

New Dispositions in Flower

In wonders of having a more satisfying life
One summarized now as bored with strife
Having given so freely jumping shelf to shelf
When keeping the peace keep a little for yourself

Fun is the trip where on arrival you rock
Go out on a cruise pull away from the dock
Paint yourself up to be somebody new
Alive on arrival as your own select crew

Volatility strikes with its ever enduring ring
Asking for help at the end of a durable string
Pop forward with passion of unending heart
Unhappy life is always a good place to start

Attend a bookstore go get some momentum
Read up on how others are locked in detention
Look around at first just skim and peruse
Finding a journey leaves you no time to lose

Fantasy of self image is one tricky customer
Take another look be fussy to pass muster
A few misjudgments tilted the wrong way
All somehow add up as donkey bray

Face yourself now then add a little cheer
Rocky roads of life are what offers fear
Arrival one day then come into full view
Patterns of activity once defined as you

Those things nearby act a personal force
With own directions and no roadmap of course
That flicker from inside lights your heart alone
To hear voices of truth outside in dark drone

All in the asking stands more at the ready
Hearing new bells now reel more steady
So satisfied a life waits to sail above and soar
Only after you answer the sound at the door

Can beliefs held sacred stay solidified as friend?
When happiness feels like it's only on lend?
New doors open if you act just a bit
Its only need is for you to just answer it

How much do you want, how deep is the pride?
Step into the action just let yourself ride
Old habits have a way of making you think
Things can gets accomplished on a flash and a blink

That same old self stays there in the mirror
If no trip was taken because of the furor
Not seeing yourself there the way others may see
Falls onto your shoulders as responsibility

When the bell rings or if you hear a knock
Will you answer it now or just watch a clock
As you feel time pass that's life flying by
Just outside your door doesn't care why

What you believe and who you are
Holds you in place as if an old czar
Systems of influence have their say
You alone decide to have it your way

Still the door waits through thickness or thin
For you to go out and not for it to come in
You hold it there with the force of a push
While massive thoughts make a bum rush

Who you are now crosses great divide
Who to become to be that person inside
Action is a volunteer who holds the key
It's your turn now to decide your legacy

Somewhere to go to get really able
To sit in conversation at confidence's table
Come home possessed with needed willpower
Safe on arrival as new dispositions flower